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While many of us were consumed with the 2010 Annual Meeting & Expo (as evidenced by the last 30 or so posts here on Acronym, including the #asae10-related quick clicks entry that Lisa posted earlier today), I have been informed that the Earth indeed continued to spin all the while. The links below from the past week prove it, because none of them has anything to do with the conference. Enjoy.

• Fear. It's "the reason your organization sucks," says Jamie Notter. He offers a simple solution: courage. "Courage doesn't dissolve fear. It is simply a different way of acting when fear is present."
• Email subject lines. Personally, I consider CopyBlogger to be the single best source of guidance and advice on writing for the internet, and today's post on three key elements of good subject lines is no exception.
• Preventing workplace violence. Certainly not a subject any of us would like to think about, but Blue Avocado provides an excellent guide about what employers should do when an employee is a potential target of domestic violence.
• Too much experience. Seth Godin offers a different way to think about failings in an organization's senior management. "[S]enior isn't about old, it's about how long you've been there," he says.
• Liars. And how to spot them. The author of Liespotting offers a few tips about how to detect when you're being duped.
• Unselfishness. Apparently, being unselfish and sacrificing for the good of the organization can make your colleagues dislike you, according to new psychological research. One more reason why people can be both your biggest asset and your biggest problem.

Now that I've finished this list, I'm realizing that almost all of these topics are depressing. So, I made a point to go find someting a little more fun, even though it has nothing to do with associations or even organizational management: "The Stories Behind 8 Back-to-School Essentials" from the mental_floss blog. (Stories behind common objects used in your association's industry could be a good idea for an article or blog post at your association, though, so there's your related value.)